django-muckraking 0.3

A collection of random Django utilities

Django Muckraking
=================

A collection of various Django utilities. It includes:


Middleware
----------

:code:`muckraking.middleware.SpacelessMiddleware`
Removes spaces and line breaks between html tags. Leaves <script> blocks intact


:code:`muckraking.middleware.LegacyURLRedirectMiddleware`
An apache-like approach to redirects.

Specify your redirects in settings.py like this::

LEGACY_URL_REDIRECTS = (
(r'^/about/news-events\.php(.+)?', '/news-events/$1',),
(r'^/about/(?!index\.php)', '/about/',),
)


Template Context Processors
---------------------------

:code:`muckraking.template.context_processors.debug_context`
Add a :code:`{{ DEBUG }}` variable Django templates. The value is a boolean


Standard Template Tags
----------------------

To use the following tags, add :code:`{% load muckraking_tags %}` to your template.

:code:`{% version_hash %}`
Outputs a hash of the git HEAD commit if it exists, or the last time the settings file was accessed. Useful for cache-busting strings.

:code:`{% settings_file_time_hash %}`
Outputs a hash of the last time the settings file was accessed.

:code:`{% git_commit_hash %}`
Outputs the commit hash of the HEAD commit in a git repo.



Django CMS Template Tags
------------------------

To use the following tags, add :code:`{% load muckraking_cms_tags %}` to your template.

:code:`{% page_url_by_slug "foobar-page" %}`
Allows you to perform reverse lookups on pages by slug::


Management Commands
-------------------

import_redirects
Allows you to import a csv file of redirect urls into the redicet app::

./manage.py import_redirects ~/path/to/redirects.csv